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The Link Magazine • January 2003
Westlea road plans on display Public Exhibition
The long awaited proposals to make Langstone Way safer for school
children will be put on display on 20 January (see details right). ii
Langstone Way, Westlea
20mph Safer Routes i .
to School Scheme
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Come along to Westlea School
collection service
3.30pm to 7.30pm on
from your surgery* by
Monday 20 January 2003
Cooper Chemist and
See plans for the proposed scheme Ashington Way Pharmacy
and give your views to Officers (Tel: 616840)
from Swindon Borough Council
*West Swindon Surgeries
Further details from Please telephone for details
Dangerous parking at Westlea School in 2001 Philip Martlew on
466369 Swmoon • 1 111•
For years Westlea School has sponsible attitude and parked on
appealed to parents not to park one side, even though there are no
cars on both sides of the road, and official restrictions.
to keep the front entrance clear. Now with Government funding
However response was only lim- through the Safer Routes to School
ited and usually temporary. programme, Swindon Council can
The situation improved two initiate a traffic reduction scheme to
years ago after traffic congestion slow cars and limit the number of Film Processing
had become acute and there had vehicles that can be parked in 35mm & APS
been a number of near misses. The Langstone Way before and after developing & printing
police wrote to parents advising school. One free 35mm 24 exp film
them that drivers who did not take Road safety campaigner and with every 35mm roll
due care and attention could be parent governor Dawn Dolphin developed on the premises
liable to prosecution. welcomed the plans. "Traffic on
With publicity from The Link, and Langstone Way has been getting
help from firefighters from Westlea heavier and we've feared a trag-
who demonstrated that emergency edy for a long time. We were prom-
vehicles would have difficulty get- ised completion of the work last
ting into the school because of cars Easter but I'm very pleased that
clogging up Langstone Way, driv- the safety scheme is now taking
ers have generally taken a more re- shape."

Road safety success in the west
Over the last two years, pedestrians in West Swindon have been
getting better protection from traffic calming and safety schemes
which are already in action or nearing completion. r) FREE FITTING
Seven pedestrian crossings, five
with lights, have been built by SELECT AT HOME
Swindon Council, or are planned,
including:
• Ashington Way, West Swindon BUY DIRECT
Centre, where a major pedestrian
and cycle route crosses next to the
Pevensey Way roundabout; v NOW 9am - 9pm any day
• Corton Crescent, after a campaign
to make the road between the West
Swindon Centre and Westlea safer Coun Nick Martin at the new
following the tragic death of Shaun Cartwright Drive lights
Shirley in January 2000; the Chinese Experience restaurant. Swindon & Surrounds
• Langstone Way, outside Westlea The improvement schemes have
School - by Easter; cost over £200,000, from Swindon
• Cartwright Drive, outside Brook Council's road safety budget and
Field School; also the Government's Safer Routes
• Peatmoor Way, to provide a safer to School grant.
crossing from Peatmoor / Sparcells Toothill councillor Mary Martin 01793 874983
to Shaw - completed January; said that road safety was a major
• Freshbrook Way and traffic issue for West Swindon residents.
calming measures in nearby West- "I am pleased that local council-
minster and Corfe Roads to im- lors have been able to push through If no reply 0800 212532
prove safety for Oliver Tomkins changes to make roads safer. In
School - complete by March 2003; particular the new crossing on *off current prices on selected ranges
• Gainsborough Way and White- Freshbrook Way will be a major e-mail us at [email protected]
hill Way, Freshbrook - to improve improvement; it's a very busy pe-
foot access to Grange Park and destrian and cycle route with a
Greendown School. record of accidents.
Additionally a speed restriction "When looked at together, we A bany
table and a 20mph zone have been have successfully bid for improved
created at Pepperbox Hill, outside safety for local people."